Looney Tunes
Created | Updated Nov 5, 2006
Looney Tunes is well-known to anyone familiar with Warner Brothers studios and their cartoons. It was composed in 1937 by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin. Originally, it was entitled The Merry-go-round Broke Down. See the Wikipedia links for more information.
Other tunes in this series can be found listed on the Toots of the Whistle page of the Guide.
This abc-rendition is transposed for the pennywhistle, tuned to the key of D. Copy and paste the abc-code, shown below, into your own text file and then process the file using the abc-tool of your choice. Free abc utilities are available that will convert the code to a MIDI file, to Adobe PostScript, and to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) suitable for printing the sheet music. As an alternative, it is possible to read the abc-code direct and play it on your favourite instrument.
X:17076567
T:Looney Tunes
T:--h2g2 article A17076567--
C:Cliff Friend & Dave Franklin, 1937
S:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/tunefind
N:Alternate titles: The Merry-go-round Broke Down
N:Transcribed to abc by Mary Lou Knack
N:pennywhistle, tinwhistle, tin, penny, whistle
N:flageolet, fipple, flute, feadog
Z:Rendered 20061104 by H2G2 U107221 for the pennywhistle keyed in D.
F:Looney-Tunes-H2G2-A
L:1/8
M:C|
Q:1/2=100
K:D
"^Pennywhistle in D"
A2| ddc2 B2A2| F6 A2| ddc2 B2=c2| ^c8| \
c2A2 B2A2| c2A2 B2A2| A2_B2 =B2c2| d2f2 d2 :|
